Improvement in portable fare-boxes



Boxes. l Patented Sep. 24, 1872.

J. C. SCHOOLEY. Improvement in Portable Fare Winsum MM '5l JOHN c. scHooLnY, or New YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN' PORTABLE FARE-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,710, dated September 24, 1872.

To all whom timmy concern:

Be it known .that I, JOHN C. ScHoOLEY, of New York, in. the county of New York and State of New York, have invented an Improved Fare-Box, of which the following is a specification: f y

To render a collection or fare-box proof against abstraction of its contents through the entrance-channel, it is necessary to command every avenue through which fares will pass to reach the safedeposit apartment. Ii', after `money has been once deposited and passed from the mouth of the entrance-channel, it is allowed to retrace its course before entering the safe-deposit apartment, and thus be exposed before the mouth of said channel, it is liable to be arrested at that point by artificial means, and may be abstracted. Now, in order to preclude the possibility of any such result, I construct a permanent inclined plane directlybeneath the entrance-channel, and at the lower end of this I attach a valve, so that it shall be suspended. in a vertical position,` .and thus, when the box is'presented for fares',

will form, as may be desired, all or a portion of the inner vertical wall of the apartment in which the fares first rest. When the box is dropped by the handle the valve will fall or open outward, and thus open the side or end Vof the aforesaid apartment in which the fares iirst rest, and thereby allow them to pass directly into the safe apartment. When the box is again presented for fares the aforesaid cated by dotted lines.

A is the box; B, the handle; c, the, en-

Itrance-channel provided with a valve, a; andb is a transparent plate orpanel, the arrangement of these parts being similarto that shown andl described in my former application, on which a patent has been allowed. E is an inclined plane or partition extending from one side nearly two-thirds across the box, and joining a vertical partition or plate, F. A valve, G,

is suspended from or pivoted to the lower end ot' the partition E, so as to hang vertical or lie iiat against the vertical continuation F of the plane or partition E, except when the box is inverted, when it will close the top of apartment J. The front edge of partitionE projects sut'- iciently to form a shoulder and stop for the valve Gr when the latter is swung outward. I

purpose in some cases to pivot the valve H at l the lower end of plane E, thus dispensing with the vertical part F of said plane. The valve will be pivoted inthe sides of the box or otherwise, as desired. `c is araised beveled strip Or stop for valve H, and runs the entire distance across the bottom of the box; or, .if desired, may be constructed the same length of valve H, or oi any height from the iioor to suit the position and dimensions ofthe valve. The object of this beveled stop is to prevent the fare deposited on the floor of apartment J from passing into apartment K before the box is dropped for that purpose, L is a permanent inclined semi-partition, to direct the fare, as it passes from apartment J, to aparticular point in apartment K, and also to prevent the contents of K from being exposed through the glass front when the box is dropped Y or han ging on the arm of the collector.

When the box is presented for fares the valves will all be in the positions represented in Fig. 1. The fare being deposited through channel C will fall on the inclined plane E and pass down and rest at the bottom of apart-` ment J. When the box is dropped or suspended by the handle the valves will swing to positions indicated in Fig. 2, thus allowing the contents to pass over the beveled stop e into apartment K. When the box is presentedfor another fare the valves will drop again Fig. 3, and completely cut off the exit of fare in that direction from apartment J.

Having thus described my invention, what next into apartment K, and their return pre- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letvented, substantially as described. ters Patent, is y JOHN C. SCHOOLEY.

In a portable fare-box, the arrangement of the fixed inclined pla-ne or partition E and its Witnesses: suspended swinging valve H, whereby the A. W. HART, fares are first conducted into the apartment J, CEAS. A. PETTIT. 

